Rack for cookie-boxes



C. YUNCKER.

RACK FOR COOKIE BOXES. APPLICATION FILED AUG-7. I919.

Patented Nov. 9, 1920.

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KANSAS.

RACK FOB COOKIE-BOXES.

To alt whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARENCE YUNcKnn, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Dodge City, in the county of Ford and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Racks for Cookie-Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to store furniture, and more especially to display racks; and the object of the same is to produce a rack of this kind for holding boxes containing cookies and the like in such position that their tops will be displayed and may be opened.

The invention consists primarily in the construction of the rack itself so that the top of the boxes are presented obliquely to the front, and it consists secondarily in providing means within the rack for' fastening the boxes therein so that they will not become displaced when their lids are raised, but may be removed entirely when they are to be replaced by others;

The invention further contemplates the provision of a specific form of box holder out the idea above mentioned.

A. still prove racks of this kind.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1, is a general perspective view of this improved rack with a number of boxes therein.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross section through one shelf of the rack, showing a box in elevation thereon andwith its lid or cover closed in full lines and raised in dotted lines.

Fig. 3 is a perspective detail of the box fastener.

The rack comprises spaced uprights or end standards 5 connected by a top 6 which may well be flat, and also connected by a series of shelves whereof each is shown herein as made up of a rear strip or boar 7 inclined downwardly and forwardly and a board 8 inclined downwardly and rearwardly and preferably spaced at its lower edge from'the lower edge of the rear strip as seen at 9 in Fig. 2. This produces a trough-like shelf whereon rectangular and substantially cubical boxes 10 may be supported as indicated. The lid or cover 11 of each box is hinged to a metal reinforcing frame 11 as at 12 and may be raised as seen in dotted lines in Fig. 2, without front strip or Specification of Letters Patent.

interfering with the Patented Nov. 9, 1920.

Application filed August 7,1919. Serial No. 315,891.

front board 8 of the shelf above. Said lid is by preference stamped or formed with panels such as 13 and let which may contain advertising matter, either painted thereon or displayed by means of a card or and removable or otherwise at will; and 1t is quite possible that one of the panels may be simply a sheet of glass through which the prospectivecustomer can see the contents of the box when the lid is closed. The frame ll of each box is provided onboth sides and preferably nearthe 1 forward upper corner of the box with hooks 15, of the box is of metal, these hooks may well. be riveted or soldered thereto.

The box fastener whose seen in Fig. 3 comprises to the rear board 7 and single sheet of metal 20 bent at its center into an elongated eye or tube 21, the sheet a bearing secure being attached tn the back of the board 7 by appropriate means 22 such as screws passing through holes 23 in both leaves 0 the bearing. Within the element 21, if it be a single elongated eye as otally mounted. the center of a substantially U-shaped wire member or bail whose arms are herein numbered 24, but it will be seen from what follows that these arms might be independently pivoted in the bearing and the latter might in fact have independent eyes instead of a single long eye as shown. Each arm is bent at 25 so as to the upper edge of the rear board carried forward and given a sion 26. and its front end is bent downward obliquely into a handle 27. spring28 is connected at its upper end with said depression and at its lower end with a similar depression 26' at the center of a short rod 29 which passes through both boards 7 and 8 as seen in ig. If a sinle U-shaped member is used, the two arms 7, is then and if the body.

shown herein-as a shown, is pivpass over 0 A contractile label, under glass or not details are best slight depresi vill stand parallel and will be spaced a so that the two arms 24: are lifted ofl' the ooks 15, the springs'28 stretching to permlt lifting movement of said arms. The

arms are then swung outward away from the box, and thebox itself is lifted off bodlly from the rack-being replaced by a sented directly to the prospective customer, and a box fastener being obviously provided for preventing the accidental displacement of the box from the rack. This, of course.

might be the result of accident, mischievous ness on the part of waiting customers, vibrabumpingagainst it of other tlon or 'jar which would follow the moving of the rack from place to place, or the pieces of store furniture which is unavoidable in crowded places. i Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

'1. A display rack for boxes spaced uprights, a shelf connecting the uprights and composed of arear clined downward board inclined downward and rearward, the lower edges of said boards being spaced 1 from each other, and means for yieldably 7 connecting them;

holding Y rectangular boxes in the angle formed by the upper faces of said boards with the adjacent corners of the boxes extending within the space between the lower edgesof said boards. 7

2. In a display rack forboxes, the combination; with a frame including end uprights and a transverse trough-like shelf of hooks on the sides of Vmovably' engaging said hook shelves, and for each box a pair of sprin actuated arms connected with the shelf an adapted: to; removably engage said hooks f( yieldably holding the b formed by the trough-like shelf.

3. A display rack having a trough-shape supporting shelf, a box having a hook, spur projecting inwardly from the shelf am adapted to pierce the box, and a spring pressed arm mounted; on the shelf and re for holdin the box in the angle of the trough of the shelf and against the bill of the spur.

4. Adispl'ay rack having a trough-shaped supporting shelf, abox having hooks secured to the opposite side walls-thereof, arms pivoted to the shelf and having their free ends removably engaging said hooks, and a spring bearing the arms in a direction to press the box within the trough of the shelf.

5. A displayraok having a trough-shaped supporting shelf, a 'box having a hook, an arm pivoted at one end to the shelf,

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